 Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Sumedha. On this episode of the Daily Roundup, we give you a glimpse of some of the most important stories that we report about at NewsClick. Across India, a historic and symbolic marches were conducted by women. These marches have been called as Women for Change marches. Ahead of the 2019 elections, which are going to be extremely historic and significant for the history of India, women decided to take to the streets to promise to vote out the anti-worker, anti-women and anti-people BJP government. The women who came for the marches came from diverse backgrounds, including working-class women, university students as well as civil society activists. There is a very clear message that was being sent out to the government, but also a very strong message came out of unity and solidarity in resistance for women's struggles. These included issues of pensions, wages, violence against women and the kind of false promises that the BJP had made to the women voters of the country in the last five years. Particularly the schemes such as Beti Bacha, Beti Parha, Ujwala scheme and also the kind of violence that women have been experiencing against them in the last five years. Here is our roundup report. Namaskar, Aadab. You are all welcome. Today we have come down from Mandi House in Delhi to a historic symbolic women's march, as you can see behind me. These kind of women's marches are taking place across India in multiple cities right now and they are particularly important because these are happening right ahead of the elections in 2019. And a very important message that women are trying to give to the Modi government is that the government has failed them in the last five years. The slogan of today's march is, if women don't rise, they will continue to suffer. It's a very important slogan upon which a lot of organizations and individuals have come together today, so many women as you can see. And the idea was that at this juncture and the number of numerous anti-women policies that this government has taken out in the past five years. Women for march is openly giving a call to women voters of this country to vote out this government. The message is very clear that in the last five years, this is a government which is anti-women, anti-poor, anti-working class. This is a fascist government which has demolished all our democratic structures and the attack on, whether it is the attack on educational institutions or judiciary or the control of media. We do not want this government to return. In our international segment, we're talking about Brazil, where protesters will hold demonstrations demanding freedom for the ex-president Lula in the next several days to mark one year of his imprisonment. Here, people's movements and organizations from about 16 countries will hold demonstrations in the part of the international rally for Lula's freedom. The former president was arrested in April 2018 after his conviction which was upheld by an appeals court in a case involving a beachside apartment. According to the organizers in a court, the demonstrations in Brazil and abroad will expose the political character of the prison of ex-president Lula. The workers' party leader was arrested when he was the frontrunner in the country's 2018 presidential election. The judge who convicted him, Sergio Moro, became the minister of justice in the new administration of Jair Bolsonaro who reaped the most benefits from the ex-president's prison. Lula was also nominated in January for the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against hunger in Brazil and abroad.